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1981 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	1981 in athletics
Major world competitions	N/A
Previous	1980
Next	1982

|No. of world records =

This article contains an overview of the year 1981 in athletics.

International events

Men's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Carl Lewis	10.00
2.	Mel Lattany	10.04
3.	James Sanford	10.05
4.	Stanley Floyd	10.10
5.	Jeff Phillips	10.11

[[200 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	James Sanford	20.20
2.	Mel Lattany	20.21
3.	Allan Wells	20.26
4.	Frank Emmelmann	20.33
5.	Dwayne Evans	20.34

[[400 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bert Cameron	44.58
2.	Cliff Wiley	44.70
3.	Zeke Jefferson	44.86
4.	Leslie Kerr	44.90
5.	Howard Henley	44.92

[[800 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sebastian Coe	1:41.73
2.	Joaquim Cruz	1:44.3
3.	Olaf Beyer	1:44.31
4.	Mike Boit	1:44.49
5.	James Robinson	1:44.63

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Ovett	3:31.57
2.	Sebastian Coe	3:31.95
3.	Steve Scott	3:31.96
4.	Sydney Maree	3:32.30
5.	Thomas Wessinghage	3:33.49

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sebastian Coe	3:47.33
2.	Steve Ovett	3:48.40
3.	Sydney Maree	3:48.83
4.	Mike Boit	3:49.45
5.	José Luis González	3:49.67

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Scott	7:36.69
2.	Thomas Wessinghage	7:36.75
3.	Henry Rono	7:41.41
4.	Sydney Maree	7:43.42
5.	Eamonn Coghlan	7:44.99

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Henry Rono	13:06.20
2.	Hansjörg Kunze	13:10.40
3.	Valeriy Abramov	13:11.99
4.	Thomas Wessinghage	13:13.47
5.	Julian Goater	13:15.59

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Fernando Mamede	27:27.7
2.	Werner Schildhauer	27:38.43
3.	Mohamed Kedir	27:39.44
4.	Alberto Salazar	27:40.69
5.	Henry Rono	27:40.78

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Herb Lindsay	1:01:47

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

Main article: 1981 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|110m Hurdles]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Renaldo Nehemiah	12.93
2.	Greg Foster	13.03
3.	Alejandro Casañas	13.36
4.	Sam Turner	13.38
5.	Dedy Cooper	13.40

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses	47.14
2.	Andre Phillips	48.10
3.	David Lee	48.53
4.	Harald Schmid	48.64
5.	Bart Williams	48.81

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Patriz Ilg	8:12.13
2.	Mariano Scartezzini	8:13.32
3.	Bogusław Mamiński	8:16.66
4.	Amos Korir	8:18.57
5.	Henry Marsh	8:18.58

[[High Jump]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Jeff Woodard	2.33
Aleksey Demyanyuk
3.	Roland Dalhäuser	2.31
Gerd Nagel
Dwight Stones

[[Long Jump]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Carl Lewis	8.62
2.	Larry Myricks	8.45
3.	Henry Lauterbach	8.35
4.	Winfried Klepsch	8.21
5.	Atanas Chochev	8.19

[[Triple Jump]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Willie Banks	17.56
2.	João Carlos de Oliveira	17.37
3.	Zou Zhenxian	17.34
4.	Keith Connor	17.31
5.	Shamil Abbyasov	17.30

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	John Powell	69.98
2.	Wolfgang Schmidt	69.60
3.	Al Oerter	68.76
4.	Art Swarts	68.32
5.	Art Burns	67.86

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

Main article: 1981 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Klaus Ploghaus	80.56
2.	Yuriy Syedikh	80.18
3.	Sergey Litvinov	79.60
4.	Roland Steuk	78.72
5.	Karl-Hans Riehm	78.72

[[Shot Put]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Brian Oldfield	22.02
2.	Udo Beyer	21.69
3.	Dave Laut	21.60
4.	Mike Carter	21.20
5.	Yevgeniy Mironov	21.11

[[Pole Vault]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Vladimir Polyakov	5.81
Thierry Vigneron
3.	Konstantin Volkov	5.75
4.	Philippe Houvion	5.70
Jean-Michel Bellot
Sergey Kulibaba
Aleksandr Krupskiy

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Detlef Michel	92.48
2.	Pentti Sinersaari	91.98
3.	Arto Härkönen	91.04
4.	Dainis Kula	90.54
5.	Seppo Hovinen	90.38

[[Decathlon]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Rainer Pottel	8334
2.	Yuriy Kutsenko	8281
3.	Uwe Freimuth	8221
4.	Dariusz Ludwig	8204
5.	Atanas Andonov	8220

Women's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford	10.90
2.	Merlene Ottey	11.07
3.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	11.09
Marlies Göhr
5.	Angella Taylor	11.12

[[200 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford	21.84
2.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	21.97
3.	Bärbel Wöckel	22.07
4.	Merlene Ottey	22.35
5.	Gesine Walther	22.42

[[400 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	48.61
2.	Marita Koch	49.27
3.	Irina Nazarova	50.50
4.	Gaby Bussmann	50.83
5.	Dagmar Rübsam	50.98

[[800 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Veselkova	1:56.98
2.	Martina Steuk	1:57.16
3.	Fiţa Lovin	1:57.42
4.	Tamara Sorokina	1:57.55
5.	Hildegard Körner	1:57.56

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Olga Dvirna	3:57.78
2.	Maricica Puică	3:58.29
3.	Zamira Zaytseva	3:58.70
4.	Tamara Sorokina	3:58.89
5.	Anna Bukis	3:59.67

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Veselkova	4:20.89
2.	Maricica Puică	4:21.40
3.	Fiţa Lovin	4:21.82
4.	Zamira Zaytseva	4:22.5
5.	Svetlana Ulmasova	4:23.8

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Maricica Puică	8:34.30
2.	Tatyana Pozdnyakova	8:34.80
3.	Alla Yushina	8:38.34
4.	Olga Dvirna	8:44.6
5.	Grete Waitz	8:44.64

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Fudge	15:14.51
2.	Yelena Sipatova	15:24.6
3.	Ellen Tittel	15:34.76

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yelena Sipatova	32:17.19
2.	Yelena Tsukhlo	32:20.40
3.	Anna Oyun	32:36.00
4.	Maria Klyukina	32:37.40
5.	Marina Danilyuk	32:46.56

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

Main article: 1981 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Tatyana Anisimova	12.68
2.	Kerstin Knabe	12.85
3.	Danuta Perka	12.93
4,	Lucyna Kalek	12.97

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ellen Neumann	54.79
2.	Natalya Tsyruk	55.49
3.	Ana Kasteckaja	55.51
4.	Petra Pfaff	55.54
5.	Genowefa Blaszak	55.78

[[High jump|High Jump]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Pam Spencer	1.97 m
2.	Charmaine Gale	1.96 m
Kerstin Dedner
Sara Simeoni
Ulrike Meyfarth
Tamara Bykova

[[Long jump|Long Jump]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Jodi Anderson	6.96 m
2.	Anişoara Cuşmir	6.91 m
Heike Daute
4.	Ramona Neubert	6.90 m
5.	Sigrid Ulbricht	6.89 m

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Evelin Jahl	71.46 m
2.	Mariya Petkova	71.30 m
3.	Valentina Kharchenko	69.86 m
4.	Galina Savinkova	69.70 m
5.	Florenţa Crăciunescu	68.98 m

[[Shot put|Shot Put]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ilona Slupianek	21.61 m
2.	Helena Fibingerová	21.57 m
3.	Ines Müller	21.14 m
4.	Verzhinia Veselinova	21.09 m
5.	Margitta Droese	21.08 m

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Antoaneta Todorova	71.88 m
2.	Tessa Sanderson	68.86 m
3.	Ute Hommola	67.24 m
4.	Petra Felke	66.60 m
5.	Tiina Lillak	66.34 m

[[Heptathlon]]

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Ramona Neubert	6788
2.	Sabine Everts	6365
3.	Malgorzata Nowak	6333
4.	Yekaterina Gordiyenko	6295
5.	Jane Frederick	6291

Births

January

January 8 – Mesías Zapata, Ecuadorian race walker
January 14 – Hyleas Fountain, American heptathlete
January 18 – Naoyuki Daigo, Japanese high jumper
January 24 – Jong Yong-Ok, North Korean long-distance runner
January 27 – Fabrizio Schembri, Italian triple jumper
January 29 – Rose Richmond, American long jumper

February

February 12 – Amarilys Alméstica, Puerto Rican hammer thrower
February 13 – Rosibel García, Colombian middle-distance runner
February 15 – Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan marathon runner
February 16 – Jessé de Lima, Brazilian high jumper
February 17 – Shi Na, Chinese race walker
February 19 – Shellene Williams, Jamaican sprinter
February 25 – Marek Plawgo, Polish athlete

March

March 11 – Yelena Konevtseva, Russian hammer thrower
March 13 – Stefan Wenk, German javelin thrower
March 22 – Aliaksandr Parkhomenka, Belarusian decathlete
March 28 – Yuniel Hernández, Cuban hurdler

April

April 13 – Moushaumi Robinson, American sprinter
April 19 – Kazuhiro Maeda, Japanese long-distance runner

May

May 6 – Rui Pedro Silva, Portuguese distance runner
May 15 – Merja Korpela, Finnish hammer thrower
May 20 – Jana Tucholke, German discus thrower
May 21 – Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
May 28 – Kamil Kalka, Polish race walker
May 31 – Eileen O'Keefe, Irish hammer thrower

July

July 9 – Rutger Smith, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
July 13 – Ineta Radēviča, Latvian long and triple jumper
July 24 – Carys Parry, Welsh hammer thrower
July 30 – Daria Onyśko, Polish sprinter

August

August 15 – Yoshiko Fujinaga, Japanese long-distance runner
August 30 – Aleksandr Vashchyla, Belarusian hammer thrower

September

September 6 – Brandon Simpson, Jamaican athlete
September 7 – Eyerusalem Kuma, Ethiopian distance runner
September 12 – Greg Nixon, American sprinter
September 15 – Tomas Intas, Lithuanian javelin thrower

October

October 3 – Anna Omarova, Russian shot putter
October 18 – Ji Young-Jun, South Korean long-distance runner

November

November 8 – Jéssica Augusto, Portuguese long-distance runner
November 18 – Kimberly Barrett, Jamaica-Puerto Rican shot putter
November 21 – Werknesh Kidane, Ethiopian long-distance runner

December

December 8 – Gabriel Ortiz, Mexican race walker
December 22 – Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper

Deaths

April 25 – Paul Bontemps (76), French long-distance runner (b. 1902)
August 2 – Delfo Cabrera (62), Argentine long-distance runner (b. 1919)

References

(August 2019). "World Top Performers". GBR Athletics.
"World Top Performers". GBR Athletics.

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